Tag Archives: Risk Assessment

CIS Controls 7 CIS RAM

CIS RAM (Center for Internet Security® Risk Assessment Method) was developed by HALOCK Security Labs in partnership with CIS. HALOCK had been providing CIS RAM methods for several years with a positive response from legal authorities, regulators, attorneys, business executives, and technical leaders.

How to Secure Your Assets from Cyber Sewage

There I was, ankle deep in raw sewage, incredulous that for the second time this summer, my basement was filling up with foul smelling murky waste. As I looked hopelessly at my wife while the water level continued to rise, I angrily thought to myself, “What else can I do?” Didn’t I shell out some […]

Vendor Risk Management Hype Extends Beyond Target®

The Target® Breach in November 2013 lives infamously in our memories and has served as a pivot point for all businesses with regard to third party vendor management (TPRM).  After all, who could have imagined that the giant retailer would have been breached through a seemingly insignificant third party that didn’t seem to have direct […]

Common Hazards in Risk Management: The Selfish Risk Assessment

Information security laws and regulations are telling us to conduct cyber security risk assessments before we develop our security and compliance programs. They insist on this so our security goals are meaningful to each of us, rather than aspiring to a generic list of controls that were written by experts who never met us and […]

Your Policies Can Hurt You, Part 1: The Importance of Well-Tailored Instructions

Managers often think about compliance in terms of policies. There is something concrete, achievable and finite about them. And they are required by laws and regulations for protecting information and systems. But too often managers think of policies as a finish line for compliance. Need to be compliant? Then write a bunch of new policies […]

Risk Acceptance Levels: Managing the Lower Limits of Security Costs

Last week I presented a topic here at Halock’s blog site on the Hand Rule, also known as the “Calculus of Negligence.” The basic message of the post was that we can use information risk assessments to help us keep our security costs to a reasonable level, but only by describing how we would arrive […]

The Hand Rule: Managing the Upper Limits of Security Costs

While presenting a talk at CAMP IT last week I got into a number of conversations with attendees about the Hand Rule and security costs. At HALOCK Security Labs we talk about the Hand Rule a lot. Also known as the Calculus of Negligence, it is a way that an organization can mathematically estimate what […]